Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
It takes dying during a heart attack for Harry Joy to realise that the life he thought was happy is actually hellish. His wife is a cheat, his kids are a source of shame, his company spruiks carcinogens. While Harry is resuscitated he will never be the same, for having seen his own misery, he can no lon ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Herbert Badgery is vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch. He might very well be the embodiment of Australia's national character, especially in its fondness for tall stories and questionable history. As this charming scoundrel traverses the continent and a century's wor ...Show more
Last of the Wilds (Age of the Fire #2) by Trudi Canavan
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: AGE OF FIVE GODS BK 2
the Circlians have secured victory over the Pentadrian army, but Auraya's sleep remains filled with nightmares of war. And the one person she once loved and trusted, Leiard, has disappeared. When a sickness sweeps through the tribes of the Siyee, the White send Auraya to help them. It is there that she ...Show more
Gotland by Fiona Capp
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Shy and idealistic, Esther Chatwin is Australia's reluctant First Lady. She longs to return to the anonymity of her old life. But her husband's sudden political success has turned the media spotlight on her and her only escape is to Gotland, the fabled island in the Baltic Sea that she loves. A special ...Show more
Milkman by Anna Burns
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018 In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes "interesting," the ...Show more
Estuary by Sam Bunny
$25.95 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Mac is born in Melbourne during the war in Vietnam. Living with his adoptive parents, Uncle & Miela, he experienced the reverberations of conflict. In time, he meets Uluru, and they move to Sri Lanka where together, they realise that they can put the past behind. Estuary is a book about legacy a ...Show more
Lucky Ticket by Joey Bui
$30.00 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Fortunes rise and fall. One day you have a lucky ticket and get a dinner so good and you eat so much that you think you'll never need to eat again. You get busy making plans and then the hunger comes looking for you. I'm just an old man selling lucky tickets, but my theory is that we all get our turn in ...Show more
The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
"Kelly Rimmer has outdone herself. I thought that Before I Let You Go was one of the best novels I had ever read...If you only have time to read one book this year The Things We Cannot Say should be that book. Keep tissues handy."--Fresh Fiction "Fans of The Nightingale and Lilac Girls will adore Th ...Show more
A Stolen Season by Rodney Hall
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Adam's life has been ruined by war . . . A veteran of the Iraq conflict who has suffered such extensive bodily trauma that he can only really survive by means of a mechanical skeleton.Marianna's has been ruined by men . . . A woman who has had to flee the country after her husband lied to the wrong peop ...Show more
Belomor by Nicolas Rothwell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
A spellbinding meditation on art and life that travels from Eastern Europe to Northern Australia, from World War II to the present. Elegiac and seductive, Belomor is the frontier where truth and invention meet-where fragments from distant lives intermingle, and cohere. A man seeks out the father figure ...Show more
Oathbringer Part Two (Stormlight Archive #3.2) by Brandon Sanderson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Stormlight Archive Ser.
This volume is the second half of the novel OATHBRINGER. From the bestselling author who completed Robert Jordan's epic Wheel of Time series comes a new, original creation that matches anything else in modern fantasy for epic scope, thrilling imagination, superb characters and sheer addictiveness. In ...Show more
Clade by James Bradley (Performed by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
Compelling, challenging and resilient, over ten beautifully contained chapters, Cladecanvasses three generations from the very near future to late this century. Central to the novel is the family of Adam, a scientist, and his wife Ellie, an artist. Cladeopens with them wanting a child and Adam in a quan ...Show more